Selective Memory presents
TURIN BRAKES
Whelans, Dublin
Sat 8th Nov 2025. Doors 8pm
Tickets €27.50 + €2.90 bk fee
Turin Brakes have announced their return to Dublin.
Following on from their sold out show in 2023, they return to Whelans as part of their EU tour to support their new album ‘Spacehopper’
Tickets are on sale now
Today Turin Brakes announce their return with a brand-new studio album Spacehopper, out 23rd May. To coincide with the news the band also share the lead single of the same name and reveal a fresh set of tour dates across the UK + Ireland for November, with tickets on sale 10am, 19 March.
Produced by Grammy-winning Guy Massey (with credits such as Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran and Spiritualized), Spacehopper is the band’s first new music in over three years and marks Turin Brakes’ 10th Studio album, a big milestone for a band whoreleased their debut album over 24 years ago – The Mercury Prize nominated The Optimist LP which catapulted them into the mainstream and achieved Gold status in the UK. They are a band that understands the art of longevity and Spacehopper promises to be a worthy edition to a rich and sonically diverse catalogue of albums, finding the South London 4-piece in a reflective mood…
“We deliberately went back to Konk Studios where we made The Optimist LP, having stayed away for 25 years,” says frontman Olly Knights. “In some ways to connect to the source but also to be who we are now in that amazing room. It felt like some deep invisible forces were being moved around. The new record is totally its own thing; there are little nods to the debut, but it’s a different beast. It can never be as simple and perfect as the debut, so we didn’t try; we backed ourselves.”
“We honestly don’t normally get self-reflective but the whole album 10 thing definitely made us want to play with everything that throws up. The dreams, what worked out, what didn’t, the regrets, the nice surprises… It just seemed like a good moment to admit we’re in on our own legacy in a way. I quite flippantly said at the start we’d be a “10 albums kind of band”. I guess I meant it!”
Along with the album announcement, Turin Brakes also release the title trackSpacehopper –available everywhere now. With the first taste of the new record their signature warm sound at once feels familiar, with the driving guitars and meticulously layered vocal harmonies evoking a hint of nostalgia, matched in the song’s lyrics, as Knights explains: ‘I wrote the initial idea when my younger daughters were quite literally bouncing around on the grass in the summer sun on a bright yellow space hopper. No smart phones, just a simple planet-shaped rubber ball with a smiley face, like the last 40 years had all been a weird daydream and it was in fact still 1975. Instead of taking a photo on my phone, I grabbed a guitar and out came the song; hopefully, it captured some of the joy of that moment.’